Current
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How to Hold a Moonbeam: How do you hold Memory?
Lagos 26 Oct - 30 Nov 2024 Rele Lagos proudly presents “ How to Hold a Moonbeam; How Do You Hold Memory?” the second solo exhibition by IyunOla Sanyaolu. Sanyaolu’s practice is primarily informed by an exploration of texture and sculptural possibilities. As an abstract artist, she aligns her aesthetic with the broader canon of the impasto... Read more -
Occurrence: The Art of Nature meets Science
Los Angeles 16 Nov - 28 Dec 2024 Rele, Los Angeles is pleased to participate in Pacific Standard Time Art with our latest exhibition, “Occurrence: The Art of Nature Meets Science.” This immersive showcase explores the harmonious interplay between natural elements and scientific principles, as interpreted by a diverse group of artists through various mediums. Curated by Rele... Read more
Past
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Mantra
Los Angeles 19 Oct - 7 Nov 2024 At the heart of every artist’s journey is the seed of inspiration—an inner mantra that fuels creation and pushes through the vulnerability required to present one’s soul to the world. The Mantra exhibition draws its essence from the newest performance art project by Nike Athlete and Motivational Speaker - Angela... Read more -
More Than Meets the Eye
London 8 Oct - 16 Nov 2024 Rele London is pleased to present 'More Than Meets the Eye' from 8th October to 16th November 2024. A duo exhibition showcasing the exceptional talents of Ethiopian artist Kalaeb Abate and British-born Nigerian artist Dr Hassan Aliyu. This exhibition brings these two distinctive voices together, offering audiences an exploration of... Read more -
Unframed
Lagos 31 Aug - 12 Oct 2024 Rele Lagos is pleased to present 'Unframed' by Josiah C. Josiah. 'Unframed' is a performance-style exhibition, recreating the artist’s studio in the gallery space. Playing on the idea of sublimation, the psychological process through which base and mundane elements are transformed into something noble and fine, the gallery... Read more -
Culture Diaries
Los Angeles 28 Jun - 27 Jul 2024 Rele Los Angeles is pleased to announce Culture Diaries, a group exhibition that looks at African-American identity within a contemporary and historical context. Bringing into focus the plurality and complexity of what it means to be both Afro-descendent and American, guest curator Dominique Clayton draws in artists of varied cultural, social, economic and linguistic backgrounds, including those multi-generationally American and those decidedly so. Read more -
Stretching the Light
London 20 Jun - 26 Jul 2024 ''Stretching The Light' presents works by six contemporary artists who explore the delicate balance between figuration and abstraction. Through the interplay of light and darkness—chiaroscuro—the use of limited palettes, and slow motion, the artists have created works that challenge straightforward categorization. Gaia Ozwyn’s works combine concrete and oil paint on... Read more -
Woven Sanctuaries
Los Angeles 3 May - 22 Jun 2024 Rele Los Angeles is pleased to announce Woven Sanctuaries, a group exhibition bringing together the work of seven female artists from Botswana, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Zambia, which together document complex personal and social landscapes that textiles make possible. Utilizing found materials as well as symbolically-laden fabrics such as... Read more -
Marcellina Akpojotor: Joy of More Worlds
London 13 Apr - 8 Jun 2024 Rele, London is delighted to announce Nigerian artist, Marcellina Akpojotor's first solo exhibition in the UK, running from 13 April - 8 June 2024. The series is a continuation of her survey into generational legacy and the evolving nature of archives. Building upon investigations of her maternal bloodline, this new... Read more -
Beyond Veils
Lagos 5 Mar - 4 May 2024 Rele, Lagos is pleased to present Beyond Veils a group exhibition presenting works from Progress Nyandoro (Zimbabwe), Sedireng Mothibatsela (Botswana), Tizta Berhanu (Ethiopia) and Diana Ejaita (Nigeria/Italy). Beyond Veils is an examination of existence through an engagement with inner landscapes of the body, mind and the otherworldly. From the surreal... Read more -
Mapping Structures: Across Worlds
Los Angeles 27 Feb - 25 Apr 2024 Rele Los Angeles presents Mapping Structures: Across Worlds, a group exhibition featuring works by Patrick Akpojotor, Paul Onditi and Soo Kim. The three-dimensional space plays a fundamental role in our perception and understanding of the physical world. It establishes points of existence, movement and relation between objects. From different theories... Read more -
Peju Alatise : We came with the last Rain
London 21 Feb - 23 Mar 2024 Dear Sim, It rains in my dreams. Every time I close my eyes, I see rain. Big fat glistening silver droplets. Do you remember when we asked our good witch how the clouds become rain? She said the clouds were wings of children that have never visited earth.... Read more -
What's In a Name
Los Angeles 20 Jan - 24 Feb 2024 Naming forms a very complex and vital part of human culture and language. From its political uses in acts of erasure and reclaiming to its practical and intimate roles within private and public spaces, names serve to allude to and confirm the presence of a thing. The naming or re-naming... Read more -
Young Contemporaries 2024
Lagos 7 Jan - 10 Feb 2024 The Rele Arts Foundation is pleased to present the 9th edition of the Young Contemporaries programme. Initiated in 2016, the programme identifies, mentors and promotes early-career artists from Africa, by equipping them with tools and resources for artistic development. Each year, the Foundation guides artists via its boot camp and... Read more -
It's A wRap
Group Exhibition 5 - 31 Dec 2023 Rele Gallery Lagos presents the 2023 edition of It's a wRap featuring works by Marcellina Akpojotor, Tonia Nneji, Chidinma Nnoli, Jessica Soares, Sabrina Coleman-Pinheiro, Iyunola SanyaOlu, Neec Nonso, David Otaru, Ayobami Ogungbe and Ameh Egwuh. The exhibition delves into the intricate interiority that characterizes sober reflections on endings and the... Read more -
Ameh Egwuh: It was meant to be a game
Lagos 22 Oct - 26 Nov 2023 Rele Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition in Lagos of new work by Ameh Egwuh titled It was meant to be a game. On view from October 22 till December 6, 2023, the exhibition offers new experiments in painting and drawing, marking a shift from Egwuh’s brightly coloured... Read more -
Jessica Soares: Who We Are When The Glory Is Gone
Lagos 10 Sep - 14 Oct 2023 What does it mean when we do not possess the aesthetic markers of belonging? How do we perform through these expectations and how do we reconcile with our realities? Who We Are When The Glory Is Gone is artist Jessica Soares’ debut exhibition of paintings, journeying through her own experiences... Read more -
At Once, Then Again: Selections from Practice
Lagos 20 Aug - 2 Sep 2023 Rele Gallery Lagos is pleased to present At Once, Then Again: Selections from Practice, a group exhibition featuring 10 alumni artists of the Rele Arts Foundation bootcamp and residency programme. The exhibition—featuring works by Odinakachi Okoroafor, James Adebayo, Laju Sholola, OC George, Nwakuso Edozien, Anyacho Chijioke, Samuel Nnorom, Yewande Ambeke,... Read more -
Ayobami Ogungbe: Home
Lagos 2 Jul - 12 Aug 2023 Rele Gallery Lagos is pleased to present Home, the debut solo exhibition of Nigerian artist and photographer Ayobami Ogungbe. Forming the first part of a dual presentation that explores the artist’s experience of spaces he’s lived in, Home draws on Ogungbe’s past and current relationship with the spaces and bodies... Read more -
Afterimages
Lagos 21 May - 13 Jun 2023 An event is not by itself the creation of a reality; it is the creation of a possibility, it opens up a possibility… The event is, in a certain way, merely a proposition. It proposes something to us. Everything will depend on the way in which the possibility proposed by... Read more -
Facing South: Mythical Mindscapes
Los Angeles 29 Apr - 27 May 2023 Rele Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to present Facing South: Mythical Mindscapes, the first in a series of group exhibitions featuring works by artists from Southern Africa. Exploring ideas of hybridity, spirituality and the metaphysical as well as critiquing entrenched forms of Western ideology, the exhibition — running from April... Read more -
Kenny Maro: This Is Not Earth
Lagos 2 Apr - 6 May 2023 April 2, 2023 - May 6, 2023 Rele Gallery, Lagos is pleased to present This is not Earth, the debut solo exhibition of Kenneth ‘Kenny Maro’ Oghenemaro. In this body of work, the viewer is transported into strange, futuristic realms; one populated by luminous clouds, floodlights and superhero characters zipping... Read more -
Nobody's Appendage: Unapologetically Free
Los Angeles 11 Mar - 8 Apr 2023 Rele Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to present Nobody’s Appendage: Unapologetically Free, a group exhibition, running from March 11th to April 8th, whose title is inspired by the writing of Nigerian female novelist Buchi Emecheta who notes “when will you create a woman who will be fulfilled in herself, a... Read more -
Bodies! Bodies! Bodies!
Lagos 12 Feb - 25 Mar 2023 Rele Gallery, Lagos is pleased to present Bodies! Bodies! Bodies! a group exhibition of works from contemporary Nigerian artists. Presenting works by Musa Ganiyy, Daniel Obasi, Ayanfe Olarinde, Yemi Osokoya, Jimi Agboola, Adaeze Okaro, Laja, Ojo Ayotunde and Dennis Onofua, the exhibition brings together artists whose practice employ the body... Read more -
Young Contemporaries 2023
Lagos 8 Jan - 18 Feb 2023 The Rele Arts Foundation is pleased to present the 8th edition of the Young Contemporaries programme. Initiated in 2016, the programme identifies, mentors and promotes early-career artists from Africa, by equipping them with tools and resources for artistic development. Each year, the Foundation guides artists via its virtual boot camp... Read more -
Poetics of Material
Lagos/Los Angeles 2 Nov - 17 Dec 2022 Rele Gallery is pleased to present Poetics of Material, a group exhibition of works from contemporary African and diasporic artists, opening across the gallery’s spaces in Lagos, Nigeria and Los Angeles, California. Running from November 2nd, 2022 to December 17th, 2022, the exhibition imagines the natural and manufactured object as... Read more -
Sabrina Coleman-Pinheiro: Feeling Blue, Seeking Solace
Lagos 25 Sep - 22 Oct 2022 Ask and it shall be given, Seek and ye shall find, But I have sought and have not found A treatment for what ails my mind. I mourn religion’s retreat Unable to be saved by the Son of Man; Its impact a morsel of what I need To repair my... Read more -
Michael Igwe: As Sparks Fly Upward
Los Angeles 17 Sep - 18 Oct 2022 Rele Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to present As the Sparks Fly Upward a solo exhibition featuring the works of Lagos-based contemporary artist Michael Igwe. This is Igwe’s debut exhibition in the Los Angeles space and will be on view from September 17 th, 2022 through October 18 th, 2022.... Read more -
Davd Otaru: FACE-ME-I-FACE-YOU
Lagos 6 Aug - 3 Sep 2022 Rele Gallery, Lagos is pleased to present Face-Me-I-Face-You, the second solo exhibition and first in Lagos of Lagos-based artist David Otaru. The exhibition draws from the artist’s personal experiences growing up in a ‘Face Me, I Face You’ apartment — a residential building arrangement common in low-income areas in Nigeria,... Read more -
Present Minded
Los Angeles 5 Aug - 3 Sep 2022 Rele Gallery, Los Angeles is pleased to present its summer show Present Minded a group exhibition featuring works from contemporary African artists: Ameh Egwuh, Kenny Maro, Sabrina Coleman-Pinheiro, and Sedireng Mothibatsela. Running from August 5th 2022 through September 3rd 2022, Present Minded is a reflection on being; amidst life's continuation.... Read more -
Neec Nonso: Transcedental Signified
Lagos 26 Jun - 23 Jul 2022 An integral quality of organic history is one of continuity, an ability to reproduce evolving systems of being. The present is conceived as an unfolding product of the past, simultaneously experienced and archived in forms as event and memory. An observation of the now is thus foregrounded against a landscape... Read more -
Finding Home
Dipo Doherty 11 Jun - 23 Jul 2022 To tell a story of migration is to tell a story of distortion - an unsettling series of events from exit to tenuous arrival. The act of migration requires certain practicality, according to writer and art critic Emmanuel Iduma. This practicality, an understanding of the imminent journey through displacement, grounds... Read more -
Subtle Textures
Group Exhibition 1 May - 11 Jun 2022 Rele Gallery Lagos is pleased to present for our inaugural exhibition in our new space, a group exhibition titled Subtle Textures. Featuring works by Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Osi Audu, Annick Kamgang, Sedireng Mothibatsela, Kelani Abass and Papa Omotayo, the exhibition explores the generative qualities of drawing and line in creating composite... Read more -
Good Things Come in Threes
Group Exhibition 23 Apr - 21 May 2022 Rele Gallery, Los Angeles is delighted to present Good Things Come in Threes, a group exhibition of newly represented artists by the gallery. Featuring works from Jessica Soares, Ayobami Ogungbe and Neec Nonso, the exhibition unveils and ushers in new voices and perspectives from the contemporary Nigerian art scene. The... Read more -
While We Roam
IyunOla Sanyaolu 19 Feb - 3 Apr 2022 Rele Gallery Lagos is pleased to present for our inaugural exhibition in our new space, a group exhibition titled New Ground. Featuring works by Temitayo Ogunbiyi, Osi Audu, Annick Kamgang, Sedireng Mothibatsela, Kelani Abass and Papa Omotayo, the exhibition explores the generative qualities of drawing and line in creating composite... Read more -
Party Series
David Otaru 11 Dec 2021 - 22 Jan 2022 Rele Gallery Los Angeles is pleased to present new works by David Otaru. Titled ‘Party Series’, this body of work explores ideas around party culture and social events. Combining drawing and painting techniques, Otaru references personal experiences as well as popular culture in creating illustrative scenes of euphoria and merriment.... Read more -
It's a wRAP
Group Exhibition 4 Dec 2021 - 9 Jan 2022 Rele Gallery Lagos is pleased to present its last exhibition of the year It’s a wRAP. Featuring works from our represented artists Marcellina Akpojotor, Tonia Nneji, Ameh Egwuh, Chidinma Nnoli, Sabrina Coleman-Pinheiro, Michael Igwe, Iyunola Sanyaolu and David Otaru, the exhibition explores topical subject matters and critical reflections rooted in... Read more -
Daughters of Esan: Alpha Generation
Marcellina Akpojotor 30 Oct - 4 Dec 2021 Rele Gallery is pleased to present the second solo exhibition and first in the United States of Marcellina Akpojotor titled Daughters of Esan: The Alpha Generation. The works presented here are rooted in ideas of affection and the familial, engaging notions of lineage and legacy. Building upon the artist’s previous... Read more -
Fantasies of the Other Side
Ameh Egwuh 17 Oct - 26 Nov 2021 Rele Gallery is pleased to present the second installment of contemporary Nigerian artist Ameh Egwuh’s two-part meditation on death and the afterlife. Where the first part, held in Los Angeles dialogued with mortality and transcendence, the works in Fantasies of the Other Side offer imaginative considerations on the afterlife. Here,... Read more -
Free Forms
LOS ANGELES 28 Aug - 9 Oct 2021 Rele Gallery is pleased to present Free Forms, a solo exhibition of new work by contemporary Nigerian artist Olu Amoda. Created from parts sourced from fabricator shops and forge offcuts, the small-scale metal sculptures featured in the exhibition examine the quality and latent energy of material as well as the... Read more -
Making Face
Lagos 25 Jul - 5 Sep 2021 Rele Gallery Lagos is pleased to present Making Face, a group exhibition featuring works by Kainebi Osahenye, Alimi Adewale, Bolaji Ogunrosoye, Soji Adesina, Plantation (Ayomide Tejuoso) and Jimi Agboola. The exhibition presents a range of perspectives across media and stylistic focus on portraiture and figuration, offering shifting considerations on ‘face’.... Read more -
Reading Abstraction: The Space Between
Los Angeles 5 Jun - 12 Jul 2021 Rele Gallery, Los Angeles is pleased to present Reading Abstraction: The Space Between, a group exhibition featuring the works of contemporary African artists Sedireng Mothibatsela, Agnes Waruguru, Sabrina Coleman-Pinheiro and IyunOla Sanyaolu. The exhibition examines the diverse and layered use of abstraction; each of the artists use various textures, mediums... Read more -
Terrains of Possibility
Lagos 5 Jun - 10 Jul 2021 In his 2009 essay Space is the (non)place: Martians, Marxists and the Outer Space of Radical Imagination, scholar Stevphen Shukaitis writes, “For even if it is not possible literally to step outside the world or existing reality, the capacity to imagine other possible worlds creates a terrain where it becomes... Read more -
Life After Life
Ameh Egwuh 10 Apr - 22 May 2021 Rele Gallery, Los Angeles is pleased to present Life After Life , a debut solo exhibition by emerging contemporary Nigerian artist Ameh Egwuh. Drawing its title from the 1975 book Life After Life by psychiatrist Raymond Moody, the exhibition explores the idea of human mortality and the afterlife, presenting death... Read more -
To Wander Untamed
Chidinma Nnoli 14 Mar - 1 May 2021 I grew up in a castle, not a damsel but distress followed me I wore prayers I didn’t understand like an armoury keeping demons away A demon I realized was you He said a sinner was one who knew his sins So I elevated my head, I stood righteous Ten... Read more -
Orita Meta
Group Exhibition 1 Feb - 28 Mar 2021 For our debut exhibition in our new Los Angeles space, Rele Gallery is pleased to present Orita Meta- Crossroads a group exhibition featuring works from three contemporary Nigerian artists – Marcellina Akpojotor, Tonia Nneji and Chidinma Nnoli. Referencing the book Orita Meta – loosely translated as ‘a junction where three... Read more -
You May Enter
Tonia Nneji 1 Nov - 19 Dec 2020 Presenting new work by contemporary Nigerian artist Tonia Nneji, You May Enter - her first solo exhibition – is a continuation of her ongoing engagement with pain, trauma and women’s bodies. Drawing from personal experiences dealing with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) – a medical condition that causes an imbalance of... Read more -
Abuse of Innocence
Sejiro Avoseh 20 Sep - 4 Oct 2020 Rele Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new works by Sejiro Avoseh begun during a residency period at Angola AIR (Artist in Residency) in January 2020. Expanding on his formal artistic language of combining collaging techniques with painterly forms, Avoseh creates fantastical, hybrid figures in his signature ‘automobile-related... Read more -
SUBLIME: Between Solid and Vapour
Group Exhibition 4 Aug - 12 Sep 2020 Rele gallery is pleased to present Sublime: Between Solid and Vapor, a group exhibition by contemporary African artists whose works exist in the space between abstract and representational art: Paul Onditi, Phoebe Boswell, Austin Uzor, Etinosa Yvonne, Michael Igwe and Talut Kareem. The exhibition explores a constant, evolving state of... Read more -
Sculpting the City
Group Exhibition 31 May - 26 Jul 2020 Rele Gallery is pleased to present Sculpting the City, a sequel to Material Times and the second iteration of the gallery’s engagement with purely sculptural forms. An exhibition of sculptures and installations by contemporary Nigerian artists who have found the city as an important texture in their work, Sculpting the... Read more -
Unspoken Rudiments
Dandelion Eghosa 29 Sep - 10 Nov 2019 We are pleased to present “Unspoken Rudiments”, the first solo exhibition of multimedia artist, Dandelion Eghosa. The exhibition is an expression of nuanced gender forms and existential principles of sexuality that are often silenced and ignored. Comprising of two distinct body of work “Home” and “Is This a Woman?” –... Read more -
Material Times
Group Exhibition 21 Jul - 31 Aug 2019 Rele Gallery is pleased to present ‘Material Times’, an exhibition examining three-dimensional art forms, that is, sculpture in Nigeria. The exhibition title is not only drawn from the varying materials presented, which includes bronze, wood, ceramics and metals/found objects, but also alludes to the evolution of the form, from its... Read more -
Day Dream Esoterica
Victor Ehikhamenor 19 May - 30 Jun 2019 Rele Gallery is pleased to present “Daydream Esoterica”, a solo exhibition of new paintings and installation by multifaceted, internationally renowned visual artist Victor Ehikhamenor. The body of work in the series takes an introspective look at the artist as a conscious contemporary nomad living, leaving and thriving in a city... Read more -
Resilient Lines
Ayobola Kekere-Ekun 7 Apr - 12 May 2019 Rele Gallery is delighted to present “Resilient Lines”, the first solo exhibition of visual artist Ayobola Kekere-Ekun. The exhibition title is intended first to encapsulate the spirit and complexity of femininity and womanhood across lineages; and secondly as a means of referencing the usage of linear and multilinear lines prominent... Read more -
She Was Not Dreaming
Marcellina Akpojotor 28 Oct - 30 Dec 2018 Rele Gallery is proud to present “She Was Not Dreaming” by Marcellina Akpojotor - a generational story of timeless ambition and the living legacies of one woman who saw into the future. The body of work in the exhibition is made up of 2 parts. First, a chronological account of... Read more -
Reverence of Thoughts
Rom Isichei 27 Oct - 30 Nov 2018 Rele Gallery is delighted to present “Reverence of Thoughts”, the 11th solo exhibition of multi-disciplinary artist ROM Isichei - one of the leading lights of contemporary art in Nigeria. The exhibition title alludes to the notion of representation, using portraits as a mirror in which the viewer might see their... Read more
